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- Date created
- 1969
- Culture/People
- Seneca [Allegany]
- Artist/Maker
- DeForest Abrams (Deforest Monroe Abrams), Seneca [Allegany], 1907-1979 and Gladys Abrams (Gladys John), Seneca [Allegany], 1911-1971
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- DeForest Abrams (Deforest Monroe Abrams), Seneca [Allegany], 1907-1979
- Gladys Abrams (Gladys John), Seneca [Allegany], 1911-1971
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artists on behalf of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Steamburg, Allegany Reservation; Cattaraugus County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Seneca [Allegany]
- Music and Sound
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/8610
- Barcode
- 258610.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Object Name
- Rattle (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hickory bark, commercial leather thong, glass bead/beads, feather/feathers, paint, varnish
- Techniques
- Carved, pegged, painted, varnished, strung
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 6.4 x 6.7 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_274556